Undergarment.



I. GITENSTEIN. UNDERGARMBNT. APPLIUATION FILED JULYn, 1913.

1,1 05,90 l Patented Aug. 4, 1914.

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ISRAEL GITENSTEIN, OF NEWYOR'K, N. Y.'

UNDERGARMENT.

p Specification of Letters Patent.

. Application mea my 11,1913. seria1N.77s,572.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ISRAEL GITENSTEIN, a citizen of the United States,and resident of NewYork, in the county of New York and State of` NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1nUndergarments, of which the following is a specificit-` ingspecification set forthin the 'claim and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, wherein:` i

' Figure 1 is a front `view of a garment with the improvement appliedthereto. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail edge View with a clasp attached.Fig. 3 is a fragment of one section of the garment material. Fig.l 4 isa cross section through the edge of the garment. Fig. 5 is a similarView of `a modified form.

Under garments have been made with hose supporters secured directly tosame, but when washed the watersoon destroys the rubber in the web ofthe supporter and rusts the metal` parts of the latter. The

serious objection to attaching ,the clasp of` a hose supporter to themateriali of the undergarment is that the same being of thin fabricthere is little purchase for the clasp and the clasp is `also likely totearor stretch the goods.`

In order to overcome these difficulties the present invention consistsin strengthening and reinforcing the garment along the seams g so thatthe balance of the goods is not intering.

`In producingthe reinforced` seam above referred to one of the sections10 of the gari ment is `cut in the usual manner with a` straightvertical ledge but the adjacent `section 11 is cut with an extension l2near its lower end. `When the two sections are placed together theextension 12 projecting beyond the edge ofsection 10 until it is` foldedover the latter edge Whena seam is formed. The portion 12 `thus forms anextra thickness or bulk on whichthe clasp 13 of a hose supporter may becaught and sei curely attached. The reinforced seam easily supports the`strain of the hose and in no way endangers the tearing of the garment.

Vhile it may be found most advantageous to reinforce the seam of an`undergarment as above described and shown it is obvious that othermeans lmay he `adopted to effect the same results as the use of a cord14 within the seam as shown in Fig .5.

In Fig. 3` the dotted line 15 represents the foldingline While in otherviews 16 represents the stitching.

When the garment is to be washed the supporters are easily removed andthereinforcing in no way interferes with the laundering of the garmentnor its general appearance.

What I claim as new is:

An undergarment comprising 1a pairof drawers, each leg of said drawersprovided with a seam on one side, the lower ends only of such seamsprovided with reinforcing means adapted to strengthen the `same andafford supporting means for suspending garters therefrom. p

Signed at New York in the county `of New York and State of New York this25th day of June.

ISRAEL GITENSTEIN.

Witnesses:

WV. E. LAWSON,

JAMES F. DUHAMEL.

Copies of this patent may beiobtaineud.for` tive cents each, byaddxessing the Commissioner of lPatents,

Washington, D. 0.

IatentediAug. 4, 1914..

the construction held together by one stitch-

